Author Archives: Paul Fletcher

Lawyers get paid to parse arcane rules and to figure out how they apply to a particular fact pattern. But the law has its match for arcane rules in the grand old game of baseball, which has returned this week. ...

The justices don’t do themselves any favors when it comes to fending off claims they are out-of-touch techno-fogeys: Justice Sonia Sotomayor called a certain video-rental business “Netflick," and Justice Antonin Scalia didn’t seem to know that HBO was a for-pay cable service.

Anyone who has ever gotten a defendant’s name wrong and had to figure out how to fix the pleadings will appreciate this item.
There is a whole body of law relating to making a mistake on someone’s
name or suing the wrong person or company.